Edmond "Biff" Burns, a Hebron-area farmer, spreads chicken "sludge" on one of his cornfields Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. The Wicomico County Council successfully introduced a bill that could severely ...

The General Assembly is zeroing in on industrial sludge regulations with discussions on a cross-filed bill that would require a permit for its storage and use. The Industrial Sludge Utilization Permit ...

The Wicomico County Council successfully introduced a bill that could severely limit, if not ban, sludge tanks in the county. Sludge tanks, also known as Dissolved Air Flotation tanks, are used by ...

The recent legislative session of the Maryland General Assembly successfully took aim at the environmental impacts of industrial sludge in the state, especially on the heavily agricultural Eastern ...

Two environmental nonprofits and more than two dozen Wicomico County residents filed a lawsuit this week accusing local officials, a private landowner and an Arkansas-based waste company of illegally ...